"I am a very well-corporated ghost," he tells her. "Though I admit, I've slacked on the skin care routine since my television days."

(He doesn't look it. Reapers might age, but they don't get pimples.)

"Honestly, I'm not entirely certain. Some of my coworkers there don't meaningfully change. But most of us still have one foot in the door of the realm of the living, so to speak, and the passage of time continues for us." He shrugs. "It might be cognition-linked, for all I know. The Undergound is similar to the Metaverse in ways that would probably net me a cognitive psience degree if I could take them to publication."